On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 11:33 PM, Paul Mundt <lethal@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 02:28:55PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 11:26:19PM +0900, Magnus Damm wrote: >> >> > The tca6416 driver makes use of the I2C bus for chatting >> > with the actual hardware device. Without this patch both >> > the I2C bus driver and the tca6416 driver are initialized >> > at the subsys_initcall() level. This may lead to problems >> > with the tca6416 driver being initialized before the I2C >> > bus driver. >> >> While this change seems reasonable I'm curious what the problems caused >> by out of order registration are? > > I'm also curious as to why link order isn't a sufficient gaurantee like > it is for everyone else? I believe all other i2c keyboard drivers use module_init(). / magnus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-i2c" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
